page_title: Negus
hierarchical_section_title: Negus
caption_attribution_description: English: Official seal of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia. According to Hormuzd Rassam, in whose book Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia (London, 1869) this seal also appears, the Amharic text translates as "Negus Nagaset, Teodros, of Ethiopia" while the Arabic text translates as "The victorious King, Taodros, King of Abyssinia."
context_page_description: Negus is a title in the Eritrean and northern Ethiopia Semitic languages. It denotes a monarch, such as the Bahri Negasi of the Medri Bahri kingdom in pre-1890 Eritrea, and the negus in pre-1974 Ethiopia. The negus is referred to as An-Najashi in the Islamic tradition.
context_section_description: Negus (Ge'ez: ንጉሥ, nəgueś ; cf. Tigrinya: ነጋሲ negus) is a title in the Eritrean and northern Ethiopia Semitic languages. It denotes a monarch, such as the Bahri Negasi (king of the sea) of the Medri Bahri kingdom in pre-1890 Eritrea, and the negus in pre-1974 Ethiopia. The negus is referred to as An-Najashi (النجاشي) in the Islamic tradition.
caption: Royal seal of Emperor Tewodros II (ንጉሥ).
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